I had posted the following in another thread:
https://civilwartalk.com/threads/ci...prominient-ladies-during-civil-war-era.73112/
The Lady Slocomb (an 8-inch Columbiad) was named for Mrs. Abigail "Abby" H. Day Slocomb, wife of Capt. Cuthbert H. Slocomb who commanded the 5th Company, Washington Artillery, known as one of the best battery commanders in the Army of Tennessee.
Lady Slocomb was famously used in Siege of Spanish Fort during the Mobile Campaign in March-April 1865 - served on the landward face by the 5th Company, Washington Artillery. It was recorded that Lady Slocomb fired 44 shell, 18 solid shot, 13 grape, and 6 canister throughout the siege, until disabled by counter-battery fire on April 4. She was later recovered in 1899 and put on display at the Confederate Memorial Hall in New Orleans.
At Spanish Fort the 5th Co., Washington Artillery was also equipped with two 12-pound Napoleons, one 3-inch Ordnance Rifle, and four mortars. The two Napoleons were "Lady Vaught" (after Lt. William Vaught's wife) and "Cora Slocomb" (after the captain's daughter), and the 3-inch Ordnance Rifle was "General Gibson" (after Randall H. Gibson). Two of the four Coehorn mortars were named "Theresa" and "Louise" after the peanut- and apple-vending girls at a coffeehouse in Mobile.
This is according to
The Pride of the Confederate Artillery: The Washington Artillery in the Army of Tennessee by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes.
Here's Lady Slocomb outside the Confederate Memorial Hall today. Another interesting fact is that veterans of the 14th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) who served alongside the Washington Artillerymen at Spanish Fort later provided funds for the granite base that she sits on.
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